Bruneck Ice Sports Center

The new arena situated in a sensitive spot in terms of urban development at the entry into Bruneck. It will be a landmark visible from afar: the arena, conceived in architectural culture and history of ideas as heir to the Colosseum, meets the South Tyrolean landscape. Typology and topography fuse into a new hybrid – the embedding of the building into the landscape is coupled with spatial efficiency and atmospheric densification: in the outside zone there is a clear assessment of the architectural context and sensitive embedding in the landscape situation, meanwhile inside we have a resonance body for the atmosphere of contest in the arena. A win-win situation – the rise of a unique building, in the truest sense of the word.

The new arena situated in a sensitive spot in terms of urban development at the entry into Bruneck. It will be a landmark visible from afar: the arena, conceived in architectural culture and history of ideas as heir to the Colosseum, meets the South Tyrolean landscape. Typology and topography fuse into a new hybrid – the embedding of the building into the landscape is coupled with spatial efficiency and atmospheric densification: in the outside zone there is a clear assessment of the architectural context and sensitive embedding in the landscape situation, meanwhile inside we have a resonance body for the atmosphere of contest in the arena. A win-win situation – the rise of a unique building, in the truest sense of the word.

Closed CompetitionFinalist, 2014

Location
Bruneck, IT

Client
Stadtgemeinde Bruneck

GFA
8.577 m²

Model
Mattweiss

Visualization
Moretti

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